Laja Khasa
| Laja Khasa | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 521 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3428 m | ||
| Post Code | 01-0702-0801-4001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 20 ° 12 ′ S , 64 ° 57 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Chuquisaca | ||
| province | Nor Cinti Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram San Lucas |
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Laja Khasa is a town in the Chuquisaca department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
location
Laja Khasa is a village in the canton of Ocurí in the municipality of San Lucas in the province of Nor Cinti . The village is located at an altitude of 3428 m on the right, northern bank of the Río Charquí , which joins the Río Cormo downstream and flows into the Río Chiñi Mayu at Chiñimayu .
geography
Laja Khasa is located on the southwestern foothills of the Bolivian Cordillera Central , between the Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands in the east. The climate is a cool, moderate mountain climate with a typical time of day climate , in which the mean temperature differences fluctuate more strongly during the day than during the year.
The annual average temperature in the district is around 15 ° C (see climate diagram San Lucas), the monthly averages fluctuate between almost 12 ° C in June / July and 17 ° C from November to March. The annual precipitation is 430 mm and has seven arid months from April to October with monthly values below 20 mm, notable monthly precipitation only falls from December to February with values of 80 to 90 mm each.
Transport network
Laja Khasa is located 320 kilometers by road south of Sucre , the capital of the department.
The Ruta 5 highway runs through Sucre and leads from the Cordillera Oriental across the Altiplano to the Chilean border. From Sucre, the road leads 169 kilometers in a south-westerly direction to Potosí , where it meets the north-south running Ruta 1 . From there it is another 122 kilometers on Ruta 1 to Padcoyo . From there, an unpaved road leads eastwards via Ocurí , Cinteño Tambo and Palacio Tambo to Laja Khasa .
population
The population of the village has changed only insignificantly in the past two decades:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 556 | census |
| 2001 | 474 | census |
| 2012 | 521 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of San Lucas 98.6 percent of the population speak Quechua .
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia (INE) 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data Chuquisaca 2001 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map 6633-III of the Ajchilla region 1: 50,000 (PDF; 2.51 MB)
- Relief map of the Camargo region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 10.6 MB)
- Municipio San Lucas - General Maps No. 10702
- Municipio San Lucas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 986 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento Chuquisaca - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 4.21 MB) ( Spanish )